First Blood / Rambo: First Blood Part II / Rambo III 4K UHDs (1982-1988)

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by zepol

RAMBO:FIRST BLOOD 2
chapter 3
time: 11:27 the color in this scene is teal. DID NOT LOOK LIKE THAT AT MOVIES, laserdisc, VHS, Beta or 1st run tv.

chapter 9
time: 1:11 looks great! That's when Rambo uses the arrows that explode.
Now my whole point is that the 4k does not keep this quality through the whole movie like BACK TO THE FUTURE 4k which 100% does. Both movies are from 1985. Again it has to do with who ever is doing the color transfer.

So what I'm hearing is "Whoops! I guess using BOYZ IN THE HOOD as a defense didn't help my case."

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by zepol

FILMS AT HOME is the man!!
He's real good and honest!
Have not bought a bad 4k that he has recommended unlike you guys here!

[Agent Kay]

Originally Posted by zepol

FILMS AT HOME is the man!!
He's real good and honest!
Have not bought a bad 4k that he has recommended unlike you guys here!

[The Admiral]

Originally Posted by zepol

I am a movie geek who has bought movies since the 80s' in every format.
So I know my stuff.
You guys who disagree with me must have started in late 90s' is my guess.
You never saw RAMBO:FIRST BLOOD at the movies.

Lol

[zepol]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker

So what I'm hearing is "Whoops! I guess using BOYZ IN THE HOOD as a defense didn't help my case."

No, you said Boyz the director wanted the classroom scene to look bad image in the 4k.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by zepol

No, you said Boyz the director wanted the classroom scene to look bad image in the 4k.

100% nothing remotely what I said.

[Bourne1886]

He’s trolling everybody we can’t him seriously. Something isn’t right. It’s like when people said there was no difference between dvd and Blu-ray. BS!

[Bates_Motel]

Originally Posted by zepol

I am talking color transfer not widescreen/full screen!
Back then we didn't no about widescreen in the 80s'.
It wasn't till THE COLOR PURPLE hit VHS in widescreen that people began to know about widescreen. Because of black bars on square tvs'.

But you didn't say "color", you said it looked "just like" it did in theaters, period. It did not. (And for the record, the color did not either.)

And RCA videodiscs were letterboxed before The Color Purple.

Originally Posted by zepol

So in Boys in the Hood when I saw it at the movies and the classroom scene didn't look bad the director made a mistake?

Yeah, it looked worse in the theater, since release prints for 4 generations removed form the negative. That's why the 4K looks much better and exactly how it should look, much more than it would look in the theater with 4 generations of image loss.

[zepol]

Originally Posted by Bourne1886

He’s trolling everybody we can’t him seriously. Something isn’t right. It’s like when people said there was no difference between dvd and Blu-ray. BS!

No, I said dvd looks better than bluray and 4k overall.
There is 20 minutes on 4k that look great but that's it.
So overall I would take the dvd I had.

[zepol]

Originally Posted by Bates_Motel

But you didn't say "color", you said it looked "just like" it did in theaters, period. It did not. (And for the record, the color did not either.)

Color and looking like it did at theater is what I meant.

[Bourne1886]

Originally Posted by zepol

No, I said dvd looks better than bluray and 4k overall.
There is 20 minutes on 4k that look great but that's it.
So overall I would take the dvd I had.

That’s because you need to go to Specsavers!
Seriously stop trolling. This is the last thing I’m going to say on the subject with you.

[Brian81]

Originally Posted by zepol

FILMS AT HOME is the man!!
He's real good and honest!
Have not bought a bad 4k that he has recommended unlike you guys here!

One can be full of shit yet be honest. Ignorance of the topic at hand.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by zepol

FILMS AT HOME is the man!!
He's real good and honest!
Have not bought a bad 4k that he has recommended unlike you guys here!

It’s because our tastes are very different. With the greatest of respect, you’re not gonna find what you want on here.

[morris_schaffer]

I liked the transfer of First Blood a lot. Only when Stallone is in the mine shaft and there is a fire source nearby, did I feel the black areas where grey rather than pitch black. Is that normal? Or is because it's a flick from nearly 40 years ago? I got an oled from 2016

Movie never gets old. Goldsmith's score is just so good.

[kashif]

Originally Posted by zepol

On Rambo 2 you gonna tell me
and everybody else that for the whole one hour and a half length movie the quality is 100% good and the same?
That the color isn't off in some scenes?
I figured about no more than 20 minutes looks 4k quality.
Now this movie came out in 1985 and so did BACK TO THE FUTURE and that 4k is perfect in picture & sound. Are you gonna say this RAMBO 2 is on the same quality level?
Like I said I was suckered when I bought this 4k based on you all rave reviews about it. Unless maybe you are watching it on 40 inch tvs or smaller maybe that's it. I am watching on 80 inches.

Originally Posted by zepol

When I had laserdisc and a 30 inch tv all 3 Rambo movies looked better than at the theater. These 4k that I have and watched on my 80 inch I do not like the transfer. I just watched all 3 BACK TO FUTURE which gets rave reviews at this site and I agree with. Also THE SHINNING I just watched in 4k and that got rave reviews and I agree with. All these movies are 1980s' movies. What it comes down to is whoever outputs the movie and who does the color correction. No reason for a 90's laserdisc color to look better than a 2000 4k disc unless the person doing the job is not good.

Since you talking about watching them on your 80 inch tv and think that's why you find flaws in pic quality. I watched Rambo 1 and 2 on 75 inch and pic quality looks great. They are not amazing but they are great. You need to understand that it all depends on original film stock as well when it comes to restoration process. It's a good transfer. Not very vivid or vibrant but actually this is how I remember watching these movies from vhs to vcds to dvds era as well. Sometimes you don't need to tweak things too much or else you don't get the same feeling you remember for these movies. Just my opinion.

[Telemachus]

Does anyone know if the 1080p discs in these UHD sets are the remastered 4K version (same as They Live, Prince of Darkness Shout UHD sets). I'm not sure if Lionsgate was cheaping out, Dredd 4K seemed like it came with the old BD.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Does anyone know if the 1080p discs in these UHD sets are the remastered 4K version

They are.

[Snikt]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

They are.

I will 2nd. They are beautiful 4K blu-rays & remastered standard blu-rays.

[Telemachus]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

They are.

Originally Posted by Snikt

I will 2nd. They are beautiful 4K blu-rays & remastered standard blu-rays.

Sounds good, they baited me with the Amazon sale.

[kashif]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

Sounds good, they baited me with the Amazon sale.

I bought them recently and now they are on sale. It looks like Amazon reads my mind lol. Its not the first time I miss a sale. Just when I buy a game it is on PlayStation plus for free next month and when I buy a movie it goes on sale soon lol.